<b>The new guild is posted!!!</b><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0><BR><BR>Novice...you will be great! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0>...we will guide you and help you anyway we can...but, I for one...know you will be a great RPer <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR><BR><BR>Alexandros and spd...come and check it out...

I have updated the links...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> and will add more Monday...<BR><BR>Its incredible what I keep finding <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif"border=0><BR><BR>Alexandros...you are there! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0>lol<BR><BR>

It sure is Alexandros! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR><BR>I'm not sure how to keep this thread up without bumping it...I can only say so much to bump it up without sounding mundane...<BR><BR>I'll think of something <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-devil.gif"border=0>

The Library has been updated...I hope everyone takes the time and explores the library...Novice, can we still post the thread throughout the message boards?...I have and will be including something for everyone on topic's of their interest and they can also request a link to be added <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0><BR><BR>I'll be working on this place tomorrow...

Alexandros: <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0>thank-you for letting me know why you won't be posting in the guild for awhile...I do understand...I too have been experiencing some mild depression...I think I have over extended myself on TORC...to RP and keep up with the many threads takes a lot of energy! lol...I will hold your place in the guild and look forward to your return...as many of us will!<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> Let me know if there is anyting I can do...you have always been so supportive to not just me but to many of us at TORC <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR><BR>And too all who read this...I found some valauable links on the subject of the Prancing Pony...very interesting stuff...I will add some of it tonight. <BR><BR>I want everyone to benefit from the Virtual Library! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0>

Parador, this is a fantastic thread <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> (your title is well chosen btw <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0>). You've probably seen these sites already, but here's a couple of Tolkien-site directories:<BR><BR><a target=new href="http://onering.virbius.com/">http://onering.virbius.com/</a> (lots of links down the left-hand side)<BR><BR><a target=new href="http://www.korenwolf.net/sitelist.php">http://www.korenwolf.net/sitelist.php</a> (aka The Flying Hamster's Tolkien Site List)<BR><BR>Not that every Tolkien site on the web deserves a place here, and sorting through all those is quite a task. But if anyone's got a few weeks spare time... <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0>

Wilko!!!<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0>...its good to see you again!...all of us have sure missed you! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR><BR>And thank-you for your support and kind words... I will check the links out too see if I have them listed...they don't look familiar so I will probably be adding them <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR><BR>***Announcement***<BR><BR>I am asking all TORCers to help in this endeavor to keep the Virtual Library up and running...I know many do not know of its existence...I am going to ask permission to post its thread in all the forums just to make people aware of its existence...I will list the catagories in the main page of this thread...such as Gaming links for our avid TORC gamers...Prancing Pony links for our lively RPers...Literature links for our literary minds...links for our philosophical types...Lots of Tolkien links of course...and much, much more!!!...Plus, links you guys find interesting and would like to have added!....<BR><BR>So, <b>TORCer's UNITE!!</b>....The library needs you and you need the library...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0>

I have updated the library...but, will be adding more tomorrow...I have been given permission to bring the library into the other Forums to introduce TORCers to its rich treasure of links...if you have any links you would like added please let me know...eventually as this library grows, there will be something for everyone! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR><BR>I have added new catagories for music and the Prancing Pony and RPing...<BR><BR>

Parador, Spirit of Endurance is very apt indeed! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0><BR><BR>I'm ashamed to say I haven't visited the Guild, but I intend to rectify that as soon as I post this message.<BR><BR>I've been very pushed lately because of work pressure, but this is easing a little--temporarily only, I'm afraid. This year is turning out very pressured for me.<BR><BR>I've seen your little notice posts in all the forums, though and just wanted to say "good job!"<BR>

Thank-you so much Novice! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> Really, its you guys that have kept me going with your encouraging words...<BR><BR>I think I'm going to give it a rest tonight though...now that I have been given permission to use the Prancing Pony to do the Dead Men's guild RP cases in...I am doing research for my case's theme...and will update the library in a couple of days...really I want to take it slow with the library...I don't want to add to the volume all at once...I'd like to think of it has a fine wine...the longer it sits, the better it gets...so, the more patient I am, the better quality of links I will find in time...Also, as I make my rounds on the MB, I watch for certain topics people are discussing and will look for the subject on the Internet...such as the Prancing Pony and its RP qualities the MB is looking for...this is what got me going in finding links to this subject...plus TORCers will eventually add to the list here and there as the Library gets around MB <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR><BR>Again Thank-you Novice...and please do visit the Dead Men's guild...I think you will find it interesting...<BR><BR>Edit: I see you have!! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0>

Parador, an essay link that I don't see in the library:<BR><BR> <i>"Tolkien: Archetype and Word"</i> <a target=new href="http://www.crosscurrents.org/tolkien.htm">http://www.crosscurrents.org/tolkien.htm</a><BR><BR>It's an interesting (honest!) analysis of LOTR in terms of Jungian archetypes. (File under P for psychology??)

I have updated the links..but, will add more later...I'm going to ask the Mods if there is anyway we can have the library linked permenently in place...so it stays visible each day without having to bump it...I can only say so much to keep it bumped up...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> it has so much valuable information in here...plus many still don't know of its existence...<BR><BR>Wilko....I added your link...thank-you <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0>

Hi Lady_Aredhel <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> The guild is of my creation called 'Dead Men Do Tell Tales'...its about Forensic Science and crime scene investigations...There is a Forensic Lab also in the second posting of the guild...we are RPing (role playing) a case at this time and plan on creating many more cases...The RP is in the Prancing Pony titled: 'Dead Men Do Tell Tales-case 1: 'The cursing of Anne Rice' and is going really well...stop by the guild in the People's alliance forum and check it out <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0>...the link is in my sig. just click on it....<BR><BR><BR>My apologies for not updating lately....not that there isn't enough interesting links here already <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0>lol...but, more will be added <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0>

Thank-you Novice <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> <BR><BR>Your post has reminded me there are many TORCers who probably stop by often and browse the links....so, I need to get a lead in my foot and accelerate the positive aspects of this place by updating and adding some more links! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0> <BR><BR>I don't want to let you or TORC down...I too have come to use this little virtual library extensively for research and just to have fun browsing the amazing information the Internet has to offer... <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0>

This thread most definitely cannot disappear into the bowels of TORC!<BR><BR>Parador has let me know that she has less time available as she is returning to college, so it is up to us to maintain this as well as we can between her less frequent visits.<BR>

Hi Novice...your right...we cannot let this thread get behind...I promise to update it this weekend...with the Event gathering voting going on and my lax of getting my TORC buns in here <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif"border=0> <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0>...much updating is being needed...I can keep her in the running if I touch base with it every weekend <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> I know there is a lot more information out there just waiting to be tapped into!...and all for our benefit...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0><BR><BR>I won't let you down on this one...I promise <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> This place means a lot to me also...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-crying.gif"border=0> <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> I really enjoy doing the research for the links...<BR><BR>see you this weekend! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0>

<b>{{GREATBIGTOLKIENHUG}}</b> for you Novice! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> Thank-you dear Lady <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR><BR>Getting back on the internet the other night fueled my passion to research for more great links...plus I'm looking into the posts in the Study Hall for what everyone is talking about and finding links to connect to their idea's and thoughts....<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0><BR><BR>MUCH>>>MUCH>>>MORE>>>TO>>>COME!!

The Library has been updated! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR><BR>Many good links for Classic Literature and Mythology...a link called, 'Legends' is full of interesting information. Also, I find the Dragon legends fascinating so went on a search for 'links' pertaining to them. There is one link called, D.R.A.G.O.N.S. ;it's worth looking into <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0> along with many other Web links.<BR><BR>The links are on the first page of this thread! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> Enjoy <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0>

Thanks for all your work Parador. I hadnt been in here before and your virtual halls are as vast as the mountains of the Earth. I was looking in the maps section for a detailed map of Beleriand/Eriador, showing before and after the change of the world.<BR><BR>I once saw an excellent one from a foreign site (I think Swedish) but like a big fat ninny, I forgot to take note of the URL. Perhpas you have seen this map or know which one I am talking about.<BR><BR>If you can think of one, please let me know - markgosborn@aol.com as I would very much like to include a link to a map showing helcaraxe in my opening post of the discussion thread for September.<BR><BR>I looked at the maps you had on offer but they all seemed to be later maps. Sorry if I missed one. I sometimes get lost in these virtual corridors. <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0>

I don't think this link has been given before<BR><BR><a target=new href="http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/~jkoeberl/">http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/~jkoeberl/</a><BR><BR>The homepage of one Dr. Johann Köberl, an Austrian professor who had the good sense to give a lecture course on LOTR and provide notes on it, in the form of several pdf documents <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0>. <BR><BR>I've only skimmed them, but they seem to be largely based on Tom Shippey's books, which is a high recommendation in my book. This link might be especially useful to those who haven't read Shippey.

Finally...an update!...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif"border=0> <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0><BR><BR>I added the link Wilko...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0> good stuff I might add...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0><BR><BR>I worked on links that have to do with Literary techniques...and Tolkien of course...will get back here the end of this week...<BR><BR>I can't believe its October already! I looked at the last update title and it said August...geeze...I'm sorry Novice and everyone for letting it go for too long...I have missed the place...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif"border=0><BR><BR>Twiggyleaf...I failed you on my quest to find your request...even though you were wanting it for September...I am still going to look for it...<img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif"border=0><BR>